Ziyan was leisurely and said, "How can we people with ordinary qualifications compare with your parents." ”

Tian Xu said: "Ziyan, don't be presumptuous, there is not such a big gap between smart people and stupid people. You see, when I first followed my parents to cultivate, I didn't enter the realm at all, but now that I've opened my mind, the progress of the realm is not slow at all, isn't it? Your previous cultivation was the same, but these days, how much time has it taken to ascend from the fifth order of qi gathering to the current ninth order? And how much time has you spent on cultivation every day during this time? It can be seen that cultivation is not just a matter of hard work, the focus is still on chance and understanding. ”

Ziyan has no objection to this, since she met Tian Xu, the experience in the past few months has completely updated her understanding of cultivation. She had just learned that cultivation could still be carried out like this, and the effect was much better than the method she had originally learned.

When the two spoke, Tian Xu had already made the bean paste filling. He cut a piece of pork belly into small pieces, marinated it with cooking wine, soy sauce and salt, and prepared to wrap the meat dumplings.

He took out a basin, put the glutinous rice in it, soaked it in water, and said: "Before wrapping the glutinous rice, you must soak it in water, otherwise the zongzi leaves will burst when you cook it." ”

As he spoke, he took three reed leaves, unfolded them slightly, adjusted the width, folded them into a cone, put a red date at the bottom, and then put the soaked glutinous rice in the reed leaves, and then put a red date in each of the three corners that were ready to be used as the other three corners, wound the end of the reed leaves, and finally took a reed leaf and sealed it, and in a blink of an eye, a quadrangular zongzi with a regular shape was wrapped.

Tian Xu's movements were a little fast, and Ziyan was dazzled, especially the final sealing operation, which he didn't remember at all. Tian Xu taught her to take the reed leaves, put the ingredients, and then wrap and seal them, but when she was halfway through, the reed leaves scattered with a "bang", and the rice and red dates fell into the basin below, splashing her with water.

Tian Xu laughed and said, "Pay attention to the position of your hand, don't let the zongzi deform." Besides, why don't you use Reiki to help?"

Hearing Tian Xu say this, Ziyan suddenly understood. Just now she learned ** zongzi, and she completely forgot that she could use the aura to assist in the operation. This time, I picked up a few reed leaves, followed Tian Xu step by step, and finally wrapped a zongzi. Although it still looks a little loose, it is already a zongzi.

Tian Xu prepared a total of three kinds of fillings: red dates, bean paste and salted meat, three kinds of leather materials for reed leaves, bamboo leaves and bamboo tubes, and the two chose different combinations, and wrapped a total of nine kinds of zongzi, each with more than a dozen, a total of two large steamers.

Not far away in the mountains, a small stream flows down from a high snow-capped mountain and flows into the lake. The bottom of the creek is smooth rocky, without a trace of silt, and the water is clear and transparent, cold and piercing, and full of aura. Tian Xu soaked the boiled zongzi in the stream, first took out a reed leaf red date, peeled it off and handed it to Ziyan and said, "Come and taste the sweetness, the taste must be much better than what you eat in the secular world." ”

Ziyan took the zongzi and took a bite of it, only to feel that the fragrance of glutinous rice was pure, the sweetness of red dates was strong, and the fragrance of reed leaves was mixed with it, accompanied by a rich aura.

"Why does it taste so good?" Ziyan asked curiously, "The last time I ate in the secular world, it wasn't delicious. ”

Tian Xu said: "Glutinous rice is a worldly grade, red dates are a low-grade grade, and the reed leaves are close to the world's lower grade, plus my craftsmanship, of course the taste will not be bad." If this kind of thing is eaten by people from the secular world, it is not very obvious, but cultivators are particularly sensitive to aura, and of course they think it is particularly delicious. Let's try other flavors, red beans are just a secular inferior product, but honey is a low-level inferior product, and it will definitely not be bad. King Kong wild boar is the world's top grade, bamboo leaves and bamboo tubes are also close to the world's lower grade, the fragrance and reed leaves have different characteristics, and the taste will not be bad. ”

Ziyan tasted several kinds of zongzi, the taste is different, each has its own characteristics, but all of them are delicious. Her amount of food is not large, and her ability to absorb aura is not strong, there are a total of nine flavors, one of which cannot be eaten at all, each of which is handed to Tian Xu after just one or two bites, and was swept away by Tian Xu.

Seeing that Ziyan was full, Tian Xu said: "In this medicine king bucket, it has its own fresh-keeping effect on food, and the zongzi will not be bad if you put it here for a year, just eat it when you want to eat it." Let's go, let's go and cultivate for a while to digest the aura. ”

Ziyan likes the quiet and remote environment by the stream, and doesn't want to go back to the original hillside. But there are strange rocks here, there is no place to sit and cultivate, and she can't be suspended in mid-air like Tian Xu, Tian Xu moved the flat boulder as big as a bed on the hillside and put it on the stone by the stream, so that Ziyan could cultivate on it, and he flew to the lake again to ponder the formation.

After Ziyan entered the ninth order of Qi Gathering, she felt that her aura seemed to have entered a saturated state, and she was able to reach the limit of aura absorption relatively easily after each cultivation, which made her a little depressed.

However, according to Tian Xu, this state of hers should also be able to greatly increase the total amount of aura contained in her body before she can enter the so-called state of gathering qi. She told Tian Xu about the lack of progress in her cultivation, and Tian Xu's statement was that she had not yet found an opportunity to improve, and she only needed to be patient and cultivate seriously.

Tian Xu advised her not to spend all her energy on aura cultivation, but to spend more effort on studying the use of aura and the practical skills that can be used in battle, including swordsmanship, etc., saying that this will help to break through the total amount of aura.

After eating zongzi on this day, Ziyan listened to Tian Xu's words, and did not meditate and practice internal strength anymore, but went around the swordsmanship. Her swordsmanship is the Kunlun School Lingxiao swordsmanship taught by her father, and the moves are complicated, with a total of nine styles and more than seventy variations, which is magnificent, and it is dazzling when it comes out.

Purple Smoke's weapon is a short black stick with a sword blade, when the blade is extended, it is completely used as a long sword, and when the blade is not extended, it is mixed with a lot of traditional whipping methods, although it can often be done by surprise, but the power of the move is not great.

When the Ling Xiao Sword Technique was used by a cultivator of the realm above Ning Dan, it could send out sword qi one after another to injure the enemy, and it was powerful, especially good at long-range attacks. Tian Xu had seen Zi Wuji, Ouyang Jie and several Kunlun sect disciples come out. However, when the Qi Gathering Realm disciples used it, they could not emit lethal sword qi, and the power of this sword technique was much smaller.

Tian Xu had studied Tai Chi swordsmanship with his father for several years, but his comprehension was limited, and Tai Chi swordsmanship was mainly cutting, which was completely different from the style of Lingxiao swordsmanship, which was like a spear and halberd, and he couldn't give Ziyan much guidance at all, so he let her ponder there alone, and he went to the lake to study the array.